CHINA: Yangtze Tumor

A little paragraph in U. S. newspapers last week was as significant to students
of China as anything that has happened in Manchuria or Shanghai: the
30th and 31st Divisions of Marshal Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist Army
were defeated by Communist troops in upper Yangtze Valley and
prudently deserted to the Communist side.

What must be called
Communism for want of a better word is the most serious problem in
China proper today, a growing tumor that gaunt ex-President Chiang, now
Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, must solve if the
Nationalist Government...